Research Guide: Communication Studies Oral Interpretation

Communication Studies

SCOM 344: Oral Intepretation

Using JMU Library Catalog to find a text; consider using these subject headings to direct you:

Subject Heading	Retrieves
Monologues	Describing Life: Monologs for Women
One Person Shows Performing Arts	My Name is Rachel Corrie
Biography 20^th Century (or any century)	Fifty Voices of the 20^th Century
Autobiography	Autobiography: Narrative of Transformation
Slave Narratives	Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a slave
Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862 Diaries	I to Myself: An Annotated Selection for the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
Authors, American 19^th century interviews	Mainly the Truth, Interviews with Mark Twain
Soliloquy	Set Speeches and Soliloquies (video)
Speeches	Rudyard Kipling’s Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words with a Checklist of His Speeches

This is a short list of how you can approach either the genre of monologue for performance/interpretation or a subject that lends itself to that kind of treatment. Think though, a search on the subject Autobiography doesn’t get you to Henry David Thoreau – it takes you to works on autobiography which will *very likely* contain examples of someone’s words, important speeches, works. If you have some person in mind, use them as your subject.

Please ask me for help if you have an idea for piece but are having trouble putting into words JMU Library Catalog understands.

If you prefer to browse try doing it here:

Looking for ????	Browse Here (all the Ps are the 3d Floor of Carrier)
Short Stories	Carrier Call Number=PS648
Poetry	Carrier Call Numbers=PN1010-1525, PN6099-6110, PS310-326, PS580-619
Plays	Carrier Call Numbers=PN1600-3307, PN6110.5-6120, PS330-353, PS623-635

The links take you to Library Subject Guides for Poetry and Plays with even more resources (thank you Melissa the English librarian!)

You can also use these library databases to find a text:

Database	Retrieves
American Civil War: Letters and Diaries	Letters on Death of a Loved One during the war
American Rhetoric Speech Bank	Rhetorical Literacy: Robert C. Byrd on the Arrogance of Power
British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries	Letters and Diaries of Jane Austen
Early Encounters in North America	Firsthand accounts in early Virginia
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories	Diaries of missionaries to Vancouver, BC
Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online	Diary of Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, witness to the Boston Tea Party
Past Masters: Philosophy & Theology	Words of MAJOR writers and philosophers from antiquity to the 20^th Century. Bacon-Yeats